Packed Lunch Ideas For Adolescents

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Share some of my favorite lunch box ideas for adolescents!

Hi friends! How are you doing? I hope you spend a beautiful morning so far. I thrilled this week with podcast interviews and customer calls – here, we goodooo – because the pilot is at home and can take control of the tasks of the house.

For today’s post, I wanted to share some lunch box ideas for adolescents. I prepare the girls’ lunches every day and I love to assemble them. The Liv school offers a hot lunch, which is to take away from different fast food restaurants, but it is super expensive (like $ 20 for Chick-Fil-A) and they don’t even keep food warm before serving it for children. So, for reasons of quality and cost, I continue to make their food here at home.

Last year, I sometimes opened the lunch box to wash it, and a little would always sit here.

“Why didn’t you have lunch?” Are you not hungry at lunchtime? “

“I’m a little hungry but sometimes I don’t really want a bagel or sandwich … I would like a meal.”

“A meal? As what do you mean? “

“Like ramen, chicken, salad or something like that.”

It fled me. I was still a little excited by “children’s breakfasts”. Do not get me wrong, they always looked good and had a lot of tasty and healthy components, but she wanted a real meal instead of a bagel or a pb & j. It was a huge bulb moment for me because I feel the same thing. I don’t like to eat the same cold things every day, and for lunch, I often prefer a * meal * instead of a bagel or a PB & J.

[And for the friends out there who might be wondering why she didn’t pack her own lunch, she was dancing 10+ hours a week last year across town and had hours of homework each night. It’s also one of those things that I’m happy to do for them – I enjoy it!]

I started to ask her for lunch ideas and take her to Costco and Whole Foods with me to choose things that seem good to him. Now, I do its * meals * for lunch which are always as fast as making a PB & J or a bagel, but they are more satisfactory and pleasant.

Here are some of the things that are in rotation:

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Packed lunch ideas for teenagers

Main course:

Salad pile

It is the Best pasta salad in the world And you can do it in advance to take advantage of it throughout the week.

Chopped salad with homemade vinaigrette

Liv likes a chopped salad and I would generally add different types of green vegetables, a protein (like remaining chicken or sliced cold meats), garbanzo beans, edamame, poshi artichokes or asparagus, grated cheese, olives, vegetables and a homemade dressing.

Jennifer Aniston Salad

We all love this salad And it is so easy to make preparations for lunch with grilled chicken on the top.

Egg bodies

These can also be made in advance and frozen. We love all these Mediterranean egg pieces or those Starbucks Copycat Egg Bites.

Ramen or Buldok

She likes ramen and that does not care to eat it cold / at room temperature, so I will make it the previous night and keep it in a glass container.

Grilled chicken in slices with sauces and rice

I will often make preparant chicken or meat meat and wrap them in your lunch with a ranches or barbecue sauce to dip.

Ravioli with olive oil and grated cheese on top

Pre-cuire ravioli, sprinkle olive oil on top and grate Parmegiano Reggiano.

Pizza

It’s so easy to conclude and wrap a few pieces of pizza

Remains

It’s funny because I hated the remains when I was a child, but the girls love them. Sometimes, after dinner, I will ask Liv what I can prepare for lunch and she will ask you if we have leftovers of our meal. If we do it, I pack them to go. Things like lasagna, enchiladas, papusas, chili or chopped beef, and the jumpers are all options that she wanted to pack and take for lunch.

Greek bowls with pita bread

Rice, chicken, houmous, Greek salad, vine leaves and pita

Sides:

Homemade energy balls

Fruit

I’m going to wash, chop and prepare a ton of fruit for the week because we like to nibble them all. I generally buy what has been in season, so lately, they are berries (strawberries, blackberries, raspberries), grapes, some types of melon and pineapple. I soak the berries in vinegar and water for 2 to 5 minutes and I let them dry completely before storing in glass containers. I also chop melon and pineapple and storage in glass containers.